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Popular Resistance in the French Wars

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  1. Charles J. Esdaile

    1. University of Liverpool, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Patriots, Partisans and Land Pirates in Retrospect

    • Charles J. Esdaile
    Pages 1-24

  3. The Ubiquitous Brigand: The Politics and Language of Repression

    • Alan Forrest
    Pages 25-43

  4. Guerrilla Warfare avant la lettre: Northern Italy, 1792–97

    • Martin Boycott-Brown
    Pages 45-66

  5. Resistance, Collaboration or Third Way? Responses to Napoleonic Rule in Germany

    • Michael Rowe
    Pages 67-90

  6. Popular Resistance in Catalonia: Somatens and Miquelets, 1808–14

    • Antonio Moliner Prada
    Pages 91-114

  7. The Anatomy of a Research Project: The Sociology of the Guerrilla War in Spain, 1808–14

    • Charles J. Esdaile, Leonor Hernández Enviz
    Pages 115-136

  8. Regulating the Irregulars: Spanish Legislation on la guerrilla during the Peninsular War

    • Vittorio Scotti-Douglas
    Pages 137-160

  9. The Pen and the Sword: Political Catechisms and Resistance to Napoleon

    • Emilie Delivré
    Pages 161-179

  10. The Patriotism of the Russian Army in the ‘Patriotic’ or ‘Fatherland’ War of 1812

    • Janet Hartley
    Pages 181-200

  11. Popular Resistance in Napoleonic Europe: Issues and Perspectives

    • Charles J. Esdaile
    Pages 201-224

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 225-233
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About this book

In the Napoleonic period warfare ceased to be a matter for armies alone, but also became an affair of the people. So, at least, runs the usual claim. In Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany and Russia outraged peasants and townsfolk rose against the French armies and fell upon them without mercy. From these insurrections we get the modern word 'guerrilla', but did armed civilians really play an important a role in the struggle? In this collection of essays a group of specialists on the Napoleonic epoch tease out the question, and arrive at some startling conclusions.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, UK

    Charles J. Esdaile

About the editor

MARTIN BOYCOTT-BROWN Researcher EMILIE DELIVRÉ Researcher ALAN FORREST Department of History, University of York, UK JANET HARTLEY Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK LEONOR HERNADEZ-ENVIZ Researcher ANTONIO MOLINER PRADA Professor of History, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain MICHAEL ROWE Lecturer, King's College London, UK VITTORIO SCOTTI-DOUGLAS Senior Fellow, University of Trieste, Spain

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Popular Resistance in the French Wars

  • Editors: Charles J. Esdaile

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230522992

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3826-8Published: 10 December 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-52299-2Published: 14 December 2004

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 233

  • Topics: European History, Modern History, History of Military, History of France

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